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The Girl Who Escaped ISIS Essay

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The book The Girl Who Escaped ISIS was a 215 page book that I have completed. It took me a about two days to read this book. This is a non- fiction issue based novel. I read it with good comprehension though it did have some challenging diction. I read it at a moderately fast pace because it was a very intriguing book, therefore allowed it to be easier to read. This book is a very disturbing novel, but everyone should read it. The importance of what goes on in this is necessary for everyone to understand.

In this book, the main character is Farida, a nineteen year old girl, who was taken from her family and sold in the Syrian slave market. She encountered many ISIS members and was emotionally and physically abused. She was raped and beaten many times. Issues like these are still seen all the time …show more content…

Girl from a young age are taken from their homes and sold throughout the middle east and used for their bodies. These terrible actions are why books like The Girl Who Escaped ISIS are so important, they bring to light what terrible actions occur in these situations, furthermore they raise more awareness for the tragedies that still go on today. In Farida's situation she was bought by many men in ISIS, all believing in their religion and that what they are doing is right. Before being raped in one situation, her captor began to pray, she said that, "the particularly religious ones commonly did this before taking a woman, thereby celebrating their rape as a form of worship." (Khalaf 148). What is happening to these girls is a horrible act, but these men are truly seeing that what they are doing is honoring their god. This isn't only seen in the book, real situations like this occur. The men believe that raping woman is a religious act. A 12 year old girl, being held a sex slave by ISIS, said, one man while raping her stated that "according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to

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